Restrictions on Compounded Medications

We’ve been asked to share a scary article from IMCJ, Integrative Medicine:  A Clinician’s Journal, regarding compounded medications.  This is something that is important to ALL physicians, both those with a homeopathic license and those with a general medical license who intend to provide comprehensive and integrative medical care.

Food and Drug Administration Restrictions on Drug Compounding: Needed Medications are Going to Disappear: A Call for Intervention
Read the article here.

A few notable statements in the article;

  • “FDA’s bias that a drug that has gained its approval must be superior no matter the extent of damage and death that drug has wrought”.
  • “To say that one or more effective drugs is available is by no means the same as saying that the disease is effectively treated.”